Noncontact heartbeat detection using UWB impulse Doppler radar

Nowadays, UWB radar systems have been used to remotely monitor subjects in many non-contact scenarios—monitoring and detecting through debris and walls. It can be used for non-contact measurements for various vital sign monitoring in different scenarios like space station astronaut monitoring, athletic performance monitoring from a distance and so on. UWB radar demonstrated very promising results in indoor target localization, and human gait analysis as well (Y. Wang, Q. Liu and A. E. Fathy, IMS Sym. Dig., 2012).